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The File System Strikes Back: Why AI Agents Still Can’t Understand Your Life

HippoCamp shows why personal AI agents fail less at finding files than at proving they understand the life those files describe.

April 2, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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When Agents Whisper: Detecting AI Collusion Before It Becomes Strategy

A mechanism-first reading of how activation-level monitoring can detect hidden coordination among AI agents before surface behavior reveals the strategy.

April 2, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina
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Approval Isn’t Free: When AI Safety Trades Capability for Control

A mechanism-first reading of MONA’s Camera Dropbox extension, showing why learned approval can suppress reward hacking without recovering useful capability.

April 1, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina
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Friction Over Fiction: Why AI Agents Need to Feel Resistance

A decision-theoretic reading of why useful AI agents need to price information, latency, congestion, and uncertainty before they ask one more question.

April 1, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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Protocol Over Prompts: When Structure Becomes Strategy in AI Communication

A mechanism-first reading of why structured intent frameworks improve AI alignment, where the evidence is strongest, and where too much structure becomes its own tax.

April 1, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina
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Team Sync or Team Sink: When AI Starts Reading Your Pulse

A study of medical teams shows why physiological synchrony should be treated as a pivotal-moment signal, not a simple collaboration score.

April 1, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina
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The Price of Explanation: When AI Should Stay Silent

A mechanism-first reading of uncertainty gating, showing when post-hoc AI explanations should be generated, escalated, or withheld before they become expensive nonsense.

April 1, 2026 · 21 min · Zelina
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When RMSE Lies: Why Your AI Model Might Be Quietly Mispricing Risk

A business-focused reading of ScoringBench, showing why model evaluation metrics are not bookkeeping details but risk-pricing decisions.

April 1, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina
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Entropy Over Relevance: Why Your RAG System Is Asking the Wrong Questions

A mechanism-first reading of Entropic Claim Resolution, and why enterprise RAG should select evidence that resolves uncertainty rather than evidence that merely sounds relevant.

March 31, 2026 · 18 min · Zelina
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From Questionnaires to Queries: When AI Starts Designing the Survey

A mechanism-first reading of AIGENIE, the R package that turns LLM-generated survey items into structurally screened candidate scales before human pilot testing begins.

March 31, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina